''Symmorphus'' is a primarily
holarctic
The Holarctic realm is a biogeographic realm that comprises the majority of habitats found throughout the continents in the Northern Hemisphere. It corresponds to the floristic Boreal Kingdom. It includes both the Nearctic zoogeographical reg ...
genus of
potter wasp
Potter wasps (or mason wasps), the Eumeninae, are a Cosmopolitan distribution, cosmopolitan wasp group currently considered a subfamily of Vespidae, but sometimes recognized in the past as a separate family, Eumenidae.
Mud dauber wasps, which al ...
s. It is within the family
Vespidae
The Vespidae are a large (nearly 5000 species), diverse, cosmopolitan family of wasps, including nearly all the known eusocial wasps (such as '' Polistes fuscatus'', '' Vespa orientalis'', and ''Vespula germanica'') and many solitary wasps. Eac ...
.
Species
* ''
Symmorphus albomarginatus''
* ''
Symmorphus alkimus''
* ''
Symmorphus allobrogus''
* ''
Symmorphus ambotretus''
* ''
Symmorphus angustatus''
* ''
Symmorphus apiciornatus''
* ''
Symmorphus aurantiopictus''
* ''
Symmorphus bifasciatus''
* ''
Symmorphus canadensis''
* ''
Symmorphus canlaonicus''
* ''
Symmorphus captivus''
* ''
Symmorphus carinatus''
* ''
Symmorphus cliens''
* ''
Symmorphus connexus''
* ''
Symmorphus crassicornis''
* ''
Symmorphus cristatus''
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Symmorphus debilitatus''
* ''
Symmorphus decens''
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Symmorphus declivis
''Symmorphus'' is a primarily holarctic genus of potter wasps. It is within the family Vespidae.
Species
* ''Symmorphus albomarginatus''
* ''Symmorphus alkimus''
* ''Symmorphus allobrogus''
* ''Symmorphus ambotretus''
* ''Symmorphus angustatus ...
''
* ''
Symmorphus foveolatus''
* ''
Symmorphus fuscipes''
* ''
Symmorphus glasunowi''
* ''
Symmorphus gracilis
''Symmorphus gracilis'' is a species of tube-nesting wasps.
Subspecies
Subspecies include:
*''Symmorphus gracilis gracilis'' (Brullé, 1832)
*''Symmorphus gracilis libanicus'' Giordani Soika, 1963
Distribution and habitat
This rather common spe ...
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* ''
Symmorphus hoozanensis''
* ''
Symmorphus incisus''
* ''
Symmorphus iwatai''
* ''
Symmorphus jucundus''
* ''
Symmorphus lucens''
* ''
Symmorphus mizuhonis''
* ''
Symmorphus momunganensis''
* ''
Symmorphus murarius''
* ''
Symmorphus negrosensis''
* ''
Symmorphus nipteroides''
* ''
Symmorphus ornatus''
* ''
Symmorphus palawanensis''
* ''
Symmorphus paralleliventris''
* ''
Symmorphus parvilineatus''
* ''
Symmorphus projectus''
* ''
Symmorphus sichuanensis''
* ''
Symmorphus sublaevis''
* ''
Symmorphus tsushimanus''
* ''
Symmorphus tukvarensis''
* ''
Symmorphus violaceipennis''
* ''
Symmorphus yananensis''
* ''
Symmorphus yunnanensis''
Distribution
Many species within this genus are present in most of Europe, in East
Palearctic realm
The Palearctic or Palaearctic is a biogeographic realm of the Earth, the largest of eight. Confined almost entirely to the Eastern Hemisphere, it stretches across Europe and Asia, north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa.
The ...
, in the
Near East
The Near East () is a transcontinental region around the Eastern Mediterranean encompassing the historical Fertile Crescent, the Levant, Anatolia, Egypt, Mesopotamia, and coastal areas of the Arabian Peninsula. The term was invented in the 20th ...
and in the
Oriental realm
The Indomalayan realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms. It extends across most of South and Southeast Asia and into the southern parts of East Asia.
Also called the Oriental realm by biogeographers, Indomalaya spreads all over the Ind ...
. Three species are found in North America.
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Description
These small solitary wasp can reach a length of about . They nest in pre-existing cavities (twigs, stems, galls, old nests of other Hymenoptera, hollows in the wood). Partitions between cells are made of mud. Adult females prey on caterpillars and larvae of beetles to lay eggs in them.Discover life
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Bibliography
* Carpenter, J. M. 1986. ''A synonymic generic checklist of the Eumeninae'' (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Psyche, 93: 61–90.
References
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